aṅku > áṅga in other East Indo-European Languages (34)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word áṅga means “limb and body.” He also provides the cognates of áṅga in other East Indo-European languages and dialect:
Pali aṅga-; Prakrit aṁga-; Ashkun uṅtró; Pashai aṅ; Kalasha aṅ; Kashmiri ang; Sindhī aṅu; Lahndā, Awāṇkāri (dialect of Lahndā), and Panjābi aṅg; West Pahāṛī and Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) aṅg; Kumaunī āṅ; Nepāli āṅ; Assamese āṅgā-muri, āṅgibhaṅgi; Bengali āṅ (body); Maithilī and Hindi ã̄g; Gujarāti and Marāthī ã̄g; Koṅkaṇī āṅga; Sinhalese an̆ga, än̆ga.
All these cognates and the following words related to áṅga originate from the Tamil root aṅku.
*aṅgakr̥ṣṭi, stretching the body. aṅgajāta, produced from the body. *aṅgarakṣa, garment. aṅgarāga, application of ointment, cosmetic. *aṅgavikala, deformed in limbs. *aṅgahōla, washing the body. aṅgikā, woman’s bodice. ardhāṇga, half the body. aṣṭā́ṅga, having eight parts. uttaraṅga, wooden arch over door frame. *upapārśvāṅga, shoulder, limb. ēkāṅga, single body. *karbarāṅga, having a spotted body. *kāṅga, having a poor body. kālāṅga, having a dark blue body (of a sword). kr̥śāṅga, thin, emaciated. *kōkāṅga, having a wolf’s body. khaṭvāṅga, leg of a bed. *nagnāṅga, naked-bodied. pañcāṅga, five-limbed; tortoise, turtle. *padaṅga, foot. *buṭṭāṅga, stump-bodied. rathāṅgá, chariot-wheel; potter’s wheel. *lauhāṅgika, iron-bodied. vakrāṅga, goose. ṣaḍaṅga, six-limbed. sámaṅga, having all the limbs. *samāṅga, a similar body. sāṅgá, together with the limbs. sēnāṅga, component part of an army. aṅgōñcha, towel. áṅgya-, see aṅgikā-. *samāṅgika, mimicking.